Table 4.
Itinerant oculists and cataract surgeons.
| Years | Name: comment |
|---|---|
| 1751 | John Morphy: Montserrat |
| 1760–1764 | William Stork, Jamaica: Annapolis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston |
| 1770–1774 | James Graham: Williamsburg, Annapolis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York. |
| 1770–1781 | Anthony Yeldall: Philadelphia, New York. |
| 1771–1791 | Frederick William Jericho: Extraction. Lesser Antilles, 1771–1776. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk, Charleston, Boston, New York, 1783–1785. Jamaica 1785–1791 |
| 1772–1776 | Stephen Little of Portsmouth New Hampshire. Couching in New York in 1772 |
| 1773–1777 | Francis Mercier (Louis DeBuke): Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, 1773–1777 |
| 1774–1783 | “Mr. Dastugue Physician and Surgeon, lately arrived from France . . . propose[s] that the Physicians and Surgeons in this Town . . . form a Corps to build an Amphitheatre . . . to teach Osteology, Truss, Physiology . . .” in Boston 1774–1775.87 “Richard Durfort Dusturge. Surgeon from Europe . . . Occulist.”129 Mentioned practice as an oculist only in 1777 in New York.87 Studied at Charity Hospital and Hotel Dieu in Paris130 |
| 1775–1784 | “Dr. Ludwig . . . from Germany, practices medicine and surgery, dentist and oculist.” Treats “eye trouble” Philadelphia (1775),87 Yorktown (1776–1783), Baltimore (1783–4).131 No mention of the eye after 1775 |
| 1778 | Friedrich Carl Pflug. Philadelphia and New York.87,88 “Surgeon of the Hessian Grenadiers Battalion . . . operation for the cataract”87 |
| 1779 | “Deui Cheau” (possibly mistranscribed) in Baltimore, Philadelphia 1779.132 “A French doctor and surgeon.” “Oculist, is skilled in Midwifery, . . . He also has had great success at Baltimore”133 |
| 1790–1798 | George Kiesselbach: Extraction (probable). Charleston, Norfolk, Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia (1790–1798) |
| 1791 | Peter Degravers, Jamaica89: Extraction |
| 1792–1795 | Bildad Beech, Whitestown in New York and Cheshire, Connecticut |
| 1793–1799 | Jean Devèze, of France. In Philadelphia. Had come from Santo Domingo. Operated for cataract in 1795 |
| 1801–1806 | Charles F Bartlett. Extraction. Newport, New York, Hartford. Darien |